Mark Zuckerberg lost $6 billion and his head of security in one day

Facebooks security chief Alex Stamos is planning on leaving the company, according to the New York Times. Stamosone of the more public-facing employees at the companyis parting ways over disagreements with how the company has handled its problem with misinformation. Stamoswho led the team that studied information operations on Facebook and Instagram in the wake
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Facebooks security chief Alex Stamos is planning on leaving the company, according to the New York Times. Stamosone of the more public-facing employees at the companyis parting ways over disagreements with how the company has handled its problem with misinformation. Read Full Story

Verizon shareholders want executive pay tied to how well it improves its cybersecurity

With data breaches at Yahoo, Equifax, and seemingly every other company plugged into the internet, who hasnt had their personal information compromised? If fines, lawsuits, and the stock market arent enough to compel companies to improve security, activist stockholders have another ideahitting executives in their wallets. Today, shareholders in Verizon filed a proposal for the
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With data breaches at Yahoo, Equifax, and seemingly every other company plugged into the internet, who hasnt had their personal information compromised? If fines, lawsuits, and the stock market arent enough to compel companies to improve security, activist stockholders have another ideahitting executives in their wallets. Today, shareholders in Verizon filed a proposal for the companys May 3 annual meeting requesting the board to consider tying the compensation of senior executives to the companys security performance.Read Full Story

The Trump-affiliated data firm told an undercover British reporter that, among other things, they could send Ukrainian girls to tarnish an opposition candidate.
Facebook admitted late Friday that the data analysis firm that helped Donald Trumps campaign, Cambridge Analytica, misused the platforms data. That determinationbased on a whistleblowers accounts to reportershas outraged lawmakers and led investors to flee Facebooks stock in droves. Amid the fallout, were also learning more about what exactly the mysterious data company does outside of the U.S.Read Full Story

5 Better Ways Jim Carrey Could’ve Trolled Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Jim Carrey painted an unflattering portrait of Sarah Huckabee Sanders to express his disapproval of her. Here are some other ways he couldve gone about doing that.
Recently, noted anti-vaxxer and Emma Stone-stalker Jim Carrey has turned over a new, artistic leaf. As a documentary that went viral last fall made clear, Carrey is now obsessed with painting, and much like former president George W. Bush, hes actually gotten quite good at it. A new piece by the burgeoning Picasso, however, is going viral for a different reason than the documentary.Read Full Story

I’ve Given 333 Apps Access To My Facebook. Almost None Of Them Need It

When you cant even recognize some of the apps that can peer into your life on Facebook, its proof you clicked without considering the consequences.
As far as I know, I never took thisisyourdigitallife, the personality quiz that researcher Aleksandr Kogan used to harvest 50 million Facebook profiles which he then turned over to Cambridge Analytica, the voter-profiling company that worked on the 2016 Trump campaign. But as details of this story emerged over the weekend, I was moved to check out which third-party apps I had given access to my Facebook data over the years. (Heres my colleague Marcus Barams tip on how to pull up your own list.)Read Full Story

Lufthansa is pushing ahead to transform your face into a boarding pass

After a successful trial in Los Angeles, Lufthansa is planning to expand its biometric boarding pass program to airports nationwide, the airline announced Monday. Instead of checking boarding passes and passports at the gate, the airline uses specialized cameras to snaps images of passengers faces. Theyre uploaded to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which checks
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After a successful trial in Los Angeles, Lufthansa is planning to expand its biometric boarding pass program to airports nationwide, the airline announced Monday.Read Full Story

This is the correction some Facebook analysts have been waiting for

Facebooks stock is taking quite a tumble. Last Friday, it closed with a market cap over $537 billion. Now, after revelations about how the Trump-associated data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica mishandled millions of users data from the social network, Mark Zuckerbergs companys value is falling fast. Currently, the stock price has dropped nearly 7%. For
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Facebooks stock is taking quite a tumble. Last Friday, it closed with a market cap over $537 billion. Now, after revelations about how the Trump-associated data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica mishandled millions of users data from the social network, Mark Zuckerbergs companys value is falling fast. Currently, the stock price has dropped nearly 7%.Read Full Story

Uber’s self-driving car was involved in a fatal accident with a pedestrian

On Sunday night, one of Ubers self-driving cars struck a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, killing her. The woman, who remains unidentified, was walking across the road outside of the crosswalk, according to a local report. The incident is the first time a self-driving car has killed someone. Uber is pausing its self-driving car tests temporarily,
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On Sunday night, one of Ubers self-driving cars struck a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, killing her. The woman, who remains unidentified, was walking across the road outside of the crosswalk, according to a local report.Read Full Story